Maya M . Khanna, PhD

Department

Psychological Science

Position

Professor

Books

• Zumbach Joerg, International Handbook of Psychology Learning and Teaching 2023
• International Handbook of Psychology Learning and Teaching
  Khanna Maya M., Topics, Methods, and Research-Based Strategies for Teaching Cognition [Book Chapter] 2022
• Reference Module in Social Sciences
  Cortese Michael J., A Conditional Reading Aloud Megastudy [Book Chapter] 2022
• Reference Module in Social Sciences
  Cortese Michael J., The English Lexicon Project – A How to Guide for Researchers and Instructors [Book Chapter] 2022
• Promoting Student Engagement
  Khanna Maya M., Community service engagement: How our students benefit from this service and how to encourage them to pursue community service. [Book Chapter] 2011
• Promoting Student Engagement
  Khanna Maya M., Adolescent and adult development: Designing a retirement and care plan for older adults [Book Chapter] 2011
• Developing, Promoting, and Sustaining the Undergraduate Research Experience in Psychology
  Khanna Maya M., Engaging Students in Community-Based Research [Book Chapter] 2008

Publications

• Discover psychology
  Khormaei Farhad, Development and validation of the academic hope scale (AcHS) for students
  4:1, p. 187 2024
• Human arenas: an Interdisciplinary journal of psychology, culture, and meaning
  Cameron E. Leslie, Myths and Misconceptions About Human Behavior and Mental Processes Held by Introductory Psychology Students: A BISTOPS Collaborative Research Project 2023
• Scholarship of teaching and learning in psychology
  Bernstein Douglas A, Misconceptions about psychology after taking introductory psychology 2023
• Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)
  Khanna Maya M., Spelling monosyllabic English words, p. 17470218231178507 - 17470218231178507 2023
• Frontiers in communication
  Citron Francesca M. M., Editorial: How emotion relates to language, memory, and cognition
  8 2023
• Memory
  Cortese Michael J., Relating emotional variables to recognition memory performance
  30:7, p. 915 - 922 2022
• International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship
  Flott Elizabeth, Supporting the transition to practice
  19:1 2022
• Teaching of psychology
  Budesheim Thomas L., The Long-Term Impact of Undergraduate Internships and Research Experiences in Psychology: An Alumni Survey Study, p. 9862832110410 2021
• Memory
  Khanna Maya M., How well imageability, concreteness, perceptual strength, and action strength predict recognition memory, lexical decision, and reading aloud performance
  29:5, p. 622 - 636 2021
• Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma
  Mills Mackenzie S., Traumatic Events Are Associated with Diverse Psychological Symptoms in Typically-Developing Children
  13:4, p. 381 - 388 2020
• Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  Cortese Michael J., AoA effects in reading aloud and lexical decision
  73:11, p. 2036 - 2044 2020
• Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  Cortese Michael J., Word length negatively predicts recognition memory performance
  73:10, p. 1675 - 1683 2020
• Cognition and Emotion
  Klanecky Earl Alicia K., Attention bias variability and posttraumatic stress symptoms
  34:6, p. 1300 - 1307 2020
• Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
  Badura-Brack Amy S., Hippocampal and parahippocampal volumes vary by sex and traumatic life events in children
  45:4, p. 288 - 297 2020
• Memory
  Cortese Michael J., Incidental memory for colour word associates processed in colour naming and reading aloud tasks
  27:7, p. 924 - 930 2019
• Journal of Nursing Education
  Minnich Margo, Writing across the curriculum
  57:6, p. 366 - 370 2018
• Biological Psychology
  Badura-Brack Amy, Veterans with PTSD demonstrate amygdala hyperactivity while viewing threatening faces
  132, p. 228 - 232 2018
• Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging
  Badura-Brack Amy, Attention training modulates resting-state neurophysiological abnormalities in posttraumatic stress disorder
  271, p. 135 - 141 2018
• Psychological Medicine
  Khanna Maya M., Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Exhibit Altered Emotional Processing and Attentional Control during an Emotional Stroop Task
  47:11, p. 2017 - 2027 2017
• Memory and Cognition
  Cortese M. J., Participants Shift Response Deadlines Based on List Difficulty during Reading-Aloud Megastudies
  45:4, p. 589 - 599 2017
• Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  Badura-Brack Amy, Resting-State Neurophysiological Abnormalities in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Magnetoencephalography Study
  11, p. - 2017
• Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience
  McDermott Timothy J., Attention Training Improves Aberrant Neural Dynamics during Working Memory Processing in Veterans with PTSD
  16:6, p. 1140 - 1149 2016
• Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience
  McDermott Timothy J., Male Veterans with PTSD Exhibit Aberrant Neural Dynamics during Working Memory Processing: An MEG Study
  41:4, p. 251 - 260 2016
• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology
  Khanna Maya M., The Benefits of Quizzing in Content-Focused Versus Skills-Focused Courses
  2:1, p. 87 - 97 2016
• Cognition and Emotion
  Khanna Maya M., Attention Training Normalises Combat-Related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Effects on Emotional Stroop Performance using Lexically Matched Word Lists
  30:8, p. 1521 - 1528 2016
• American Journal of Psychiatry
  Badura Brack Amy, Effect of Attention Training on Attention Bias Variability and PTSD Symptoms: Randomized Controlled Trials in Israeli and U.S. Combat Veterans
  172:12, p. 1233 - 1241 2015
• Teaching of Psychology
  Khanna Maya M., Ungraded pop quizzes: Test-enhanced learning without all the anxiety
  42:2, p. 174 - 178 2015
• Journal of environmental health
  Khanna Maya M., Boys, not girls, are negatively affected on cognitive tasks by lead exposure
  77:6, p. 72 - 77 2015
• Teaching of Psychology
  Khanna Maya M., Short- and Long-Term Effects of Cumulative Finals on Student Learning
  40:3, p. 175 - 182 2013
• Behavior Research Methods
  Schock Jocelyn, Age of acquisition estimates for 3,000 disyllabic words
  44:4, p. 971 - 977 2012
• Behavior Research Methods
  Schock Jocelyn, Age of acquisition estimates for 3,000 disyllabic words
  44:4, p. 971 - 977 2012
• Behavior Research Methods
  Schock Jocelyn, Imageability estimates for 3,000 disyllabic words
  44:2, p. 374 - 379 2012
• Behavior Research Methods
  Schock Jocelyn, Imageability estimates for 3,000 disyllabic words
  44:2, p. 374 - 379 2012
• Behavior Research Methods
  Khanna Maya M., Age of acquisition estimates for 1,208 ambiguous and polysemous words
  43:1, p. 89 - 96 2011
• Scientific Studies of Reading
  Khanna Maya M., Learning New Words Affects Nonword Pronunciation in Children
  14:5, p. 407 - 439 2010
• Memory
  Cortese Michael J., Recognition memory for 2,578 monosyllabic words
  18:6, p. 595 - 609 2010
• Memory
  Cortese Michael J., Recognition memory for 2,578 monosyllabic words
  18:6, p. 595 - 609 2010
• Scientific Studies of Reading
  Khanna Maya M., Learning new words affects nonword pronunciation in children
  14:5, p. 407 - 439 2010
• Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  Khanna Maya M., The development of context-use for lexical ambiguity resolution.
  63, p. 160 - 193 2010
• Applied Cognitive Psychology
  Khanna Maya M., Children and adults are differentially affected by presentation modality in the DRM paradigm
  23:6, p. 859 - 877 2009
• Behavior Research Methods
  Cortese Michael J., Age of acquisition ratings for 3,000 monosyllabic words
  40:3, p. 791 - 794 2008
• Journal of Memory and Language
  Cortese Michael J., The activation and monitoring of memories produced by words and pseudohomophones
  58:2, p. 393 - 414 2008
• Journal of Memory and Language
  Cortese Michael J., The activation and monitoring of memories produced by words and pseudohomophones
  58:2, p. 393 - 414 2008
• Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  Cortese Michael J., Age of acquisition predicts naming and lexical-decision performance above and beyond 22 other predictor variables
  60:8, p. 1072 - 1082 2007
• Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  Cortese Michael J., Age of acquisition predicts naming and lexical-decision performance above and beyond 22 other predictor variables: An analysis of 2,342 words
  60:8, p. 1072 - 1082 2007
• Psychonomic Bulletin and Review
  Cortese Michael J., Revisiting distinctive processes in memory
  13:3, p. 446 - 451 2006
• Psychonomic Bulletin and Review
  Bleckley M. Kathryn, Individual differences in working memory capacity predict visual attention allocation
  10:4, p. 884 - 889 2003

Presentations

• Self-Generated versus Provided Examples - Presented at the 2022 BISTOPS meeting. 2022
• Khanna, M. M., Guenther, C., & Fairchild, J. A. L. (2020, January). Are Freshmen ready to use research-based study strategies? Presented at the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology 42nd annual meeting, St. Pete Beach, FL. 2020
• Khanna, M. M., Budesheim, T. L., Guenther, C. L., & Klanecky, A. K. (2019, January). Internships boost retrospective ratings of education satisfaction and relevance, especially for those entering the workforce. Presented at the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology 41st annual meeting, St. Pete Beach, FL. 2019
• Khanna, M. M. (2018, November). Will vigorous exercise improve your verbal GRE score? Spoken presentation made at the department brown bag series. 2018
• Guenther, C. L., Khanna, M. M., Budesheim, T. L., & Klanecky, A. K. (2018, October). Internships boost retrospective ratings of education satisfaction and relevance, especially for those entering the workforce. Poster presented at the Creighton University Assessment Day. 2018
• Reyelts, C., Hwang, S., Khanna, M. M., Kratochvil, C., Vaughan, B., Knott, N., Coolidge, N., Wilson, T.W., & Blair, J. (2018, October). The utility of magneto-encephalography in measuring of irritability in pediatric populations. Poster presented at the Annual meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Seattle, Washington, USA. 2018
• Khanna, M. M. (2018, July). Should we introduce research-based learning strategies to freshmen? Spoken presentation at the Biennial International Seminar on the Teaching of Psychological Science, Paris, France. 2018
• Mills MS, Embury CM, Warren DE, Robinson AM, Meredith CK, Manker BR, Khanna MM, Klanecky AK, Calhoun VD, Stephen JM, Wang YP, Wilson TW, & Badura-Brack AS. (2018). Amygdala, Hippocampal, and Parahippocampal Volumes Vary By Sex and Traumatic Life Events in Healthy Children. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science (APS) Annual Convention 2018, San Francisco, CA, USA. 2018
• Cortese, M. J., Khanna, M. M., and von Nordheim, D. (2018, May). Incidental Memory for Color Word Associations Processed in Color Naming and Word Naming Tasks: Is a Blue Sky More Memorable Than a Green One? Poster to be presented at the Association for Psychological Science (APS) Annual Convention 2018, San Francisco, CA, USA. 2018
• Yeh, M. E., & Khanna, M. M. (2018, April). The Effect of Moderate-to-high Intensity exercise on cognitive function. Presented at the annual Nebraska Academy of Science Meeting, Lincoln, NE. 2018
• Khanna, M. M. (2017, November). Closing the Loop: How cognitive science can guide pedagogical development and how applied classroom research can guide cognitive science theory. Presented at the Univ. of Nebraska at Omaha Topics in Education Seminar. 2017
• Begley, K., Khanna, M. M. , & Mayer, A. (2017, October). Fighting the cram and dump: Classroom strategies to improve student learning. Creighton office of Academic Excellence and Assessment lunch series. 2017
• Khanna, M. M. (2017, April). The neurocognitive effects of lead exposure on the developing brain. Invited presentation at the Omaha Earth Day March for Science. 2017
• Khanna, M. M. (2017, February). Emotional Stroop Task Performance in PTSD Reveals Alterations in Emotional Processing and Attention Allocation. Presented at the UNMC Mind and Brain Health Seminar Series. 2017
• Khanna, M. M. (2016). The psychological impact of lead exposure in North Omaha. Presented at South Omaha Community Forum on Lead at The Salvation Army Kroc Center. 2016
• Fernandes*, R.C., Toalson*, S.K., McDermott*, T.J., Khanna, M.M., Bar-Haim, Y., & Badura Brack, A.S. (2016). Attention Training Exerts Therapeutic Effects on PTSD Symptoms in Only Four Sessions. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL. 2016
• McDermott*, T.J., Badura Brack, A.S., Kemp, C.M., Khanna, M.M., Heinrichs-Graham*, E., & Wilson, T.W. (2016). Patterns of Neural Activation during Trauma Provocation in Combat Veterans with PTSD. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL. 2016
• McDermott*, T.J., Badura Brack, A.S., Merrill*, B.M., Khanna, M.M., Abend, R., Bar-Haim, Y., Heinrichs-Graham, E., & Wilson, T.W. (2016). Neurophysiological Correlates of Attention Bias Variability and PTSD: A Magnetoencephalography Study. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL. 2016
• Cortese, M. J., Khanna, M. M., Kopp*, R. J. B., & Preston*, K. S. (2015, November). Does blocking words by difficulty in a reading aloud task improve the predictive power of standard variables on performance measures 2015
• McDermott*, T. J., Badura-Brack, A. S., Khanna, M. M., Shepherd*, A. J., Heinrichs-Graham*, E., & Wislon, T. W., (2015, May). Magnetoencephalography reveals neurocognitive deficits during an emotional Stroop task in veterans with PTSD 2015
• Khanna, M. M. & Dickel, C. T. (2014, May) Neurological effects of lead exposure and a new cognitive intervention. Invited presentation at the Omaha Healthy Housing Summit. 2015
• Dickel, C.T., & Khanna, M.M. (March, 2014). "Lessons and Dilemmas: Implementing and Evaluating a College-Wide iPad Project." EDUCAUSE Connect, Chicago, Illinois, March 17-19, 2014. 2014
• Khanna, M. M., Badura Brack, A. S., and Finken, L. L. (2013, October). Cumulative Final Exams and Pop Quizzes: Practical ways to integrate repeated testing into courses. Presented at the Society for Teaching of Psychology, Best Practices: Research-Based Approaches for Teaching Psychology. 2013
• Khanna, M. M. (2013, October). Neurological effects of lead exposure and the educational implications. Invited presentation at the Lead & Healthy Housing Midwest Regional Conference. 2013
• Dickel, C.T., Khanna, M.M., Ishii-Jordan, S.R., & Turner, M. (2013, October). Preparing the faculty: Ongoing pedagogical issues in iPad-only university courses. Presentation made at the E-Learn World Conference on E-Learning , Las Vegas, Nevada. 2013
• Dickel, C.T., & Khanna, M.M. (April, 2013). "Evidence-Based Learning: An Interactive Case Study Evaluating the Impact of iPads on Student Learning. Sloan/Merlot 7th Annual Emerging Technologies for Online Learning International Symposium, Dallas, Texas, April 9-11, 2013. 2013
• Khanna, M. M. (2012, May). Cognitive impact of lead exposure on Omaha children. Invited presentation to the Omaha and Sarpy county public schools Early Childhood Network. 2012
• Khanna, M. M. (2012, March). Cognitive impact of lead exposure on Omaha children. Invited presentation to the Douglas County Health Department Board of Directors. 2012
• Centeno, L. & Khanna, M. M. (2011). The Impact of verb type on explicit and implicit memory. Presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society. Seattle, WA. 2011
• Khanna, M. M. & DiFolco, K. (2011). Improving childrens comprehension and memory: Reciprocal teaching vs. repeated testing. Presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association Meeting. Chicago, IL. 2011
• Centeno, L. & Khanna, M. M. (2011). The effects of verb complexity on reading comprehension. Presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association Meeting. Chicago, IL. 2011
• Khanna, M. M. (2010, December ). The Relationship Between Neurocognitive Development and Cognitive Functioning. Presented at The University of Vermont, Medical Center Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Burlington, VT. 2010
• Khanna, M. M., Cortese, M. J., Murphy, B.* & Daniels, K*. (2010, November) Dominance and Subordination: Age of Acquisition Estimates for Ambiguous Word Senses. Presented at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society. St. Louis, MO. 2010

Other

• Creighton University Office for Academic Excellence and Assessment Grant – Impact of iPad Use on Student Learning.

• Creighton University Summer Faculty Fellowship Program – The Impact of Lead Exposure on Executive Function and Reading Skill Development

• Creighton University Summer Faculty Fellowship Program – Children’s use of sentence level and word level context for meaning selection

• Creighton University Office for Academic Excellence and Assessment Grant – Cumulative Final Exams: A Continual Review of the Impact on Student Learning-

Awards

• Recipient of the University Distinguished Educator in Teaching as Scholarship award
  Creighton University

Consulting

• Consultant
  At Ease U.S.A. and the Robert B. Daugherty Foundation Grant for - Attention Bias Modification Treatment for Combat-Related PTSD: A Randomized Clinical Trial Magnetoencephalogy Study. (PI- Amy Badura Brack, Ph. D.).
  2012